Society
It’s the Land, Stupid: How the Homebuilder Cartel Drives High Housing Prices
by Matt Stoller
Kyle Steinike added 1mo ago
- “The reason people get good ideas in the shower is because it’s the only time during the day when most people are away from screens long enough to think clearly. The lesson is not to take more showers, but rather to make more time to think.”
from 3-2-1: On creating the conditions for joy, how to go to hell, and the simple way to clarify your thinking by James Clear
Kyle Steinike added 4mo ago
- “I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing — their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously cre... See morefrom 3-2-1: A mindset that can take you far in life, aging well, and the value of darkness
Kyle Steinike added 4mo ago
“The liberal democracy is an artificial environment, carefully crafted to both contain human nature and convert it into an engine of progress. When we grow up within an artificial habitat that values human inventions like reason and fairness and humanity, it can be easy to forget just how tenuous that environment is. It’s easy to forget that we’re
... See morefrom Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Kyle Steinike added 4mo ago
Kyle Steinike added 4mo ago
“You should, in science, believe logic and arguments, carefully drawn, and not authorities.”
— Richard feynmanfrom Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Kyle Steinike added 4mo ago
- "I’ve come to believe that this is the defining characteristic of my generation: keeping our options open. The Polish philosopher Zygmunt Bauman has a great phrase for what I’m talking about: liquid modernity. We never want to commit to any one identity or place or community ... so we remain like liquid, in a state that can adapt to fit any future ... See more
from Brain Food: On keeping your options open, leverage, and courage
Kyle Steinike added 4mo ago
- Confronted with words, ideas, or decisions they dislike, a growing number of people are asserting that they are in danger of suffering psychological or even bodily harm. But when one party asserts that a debate threatens their very well-being, it is hard to deliberate on policy—or topics such as race and gender. The result is a narrowing of the spa... See more
from A Taxonomy of Fear by persuasion.community
Kyle Steinike added 4mo ago
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
from Why Tokyo Works by Cole Lubchenko
Kyle Steinike added 4mo ago
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